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Toilet Conversions Quench Sydney Thirst for Cheap Eats
The Gardener’s Lodge Cafe in Sydney’s Victoria Park has polished wood floors, Aboriginal art on the walls and customers tucking into kangaroo-stout pies and sipping on macchiatos. All this betrays none of its past: The 125-year-old sandstone structure used to be a public toilet. “It doesn’t put me off, it just adds a bit of character to the place,” Ben Andersen, 32, said over a cappuccino and apple crumble among the outdoor tables of the cafe, which was converted two years ago after three decades of disrepair. “I’d never have guessed it used to be a toilet.” Following a handful of such conversions ... (full story)
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